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LUNCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lunching mean? 

LUNCHING (noun)
  The noun LUNCHING has 1 sense:

1. the act of eating lunchplay

  Familiarity information: LUNCHING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LUNCHING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of eating lunch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lunching" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Derivation:

lunch (take the midday meal)


 Context examples 


The Prime Minister is lunching with me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with us, please come to breakfast at eight o'clock, if this be not too early for you?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He came on with me to Hillingham, and found that, by Lucy's discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that we were alone with her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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